Anne Rice Interview With A Vampire Writer

Anne Rice  talks about creating Interview With A Vampire from the idea to the book.  Raised in a fertile breeding ground for fantasy and horror, Anne Rice , was schooled by the local legends and graveyards of New Orleans.   She highlights the different aspects of New Orleans culture from spending afternoons picnicking in graveyards to melange of cultures French, Caribbean and southern.  She ends by recounting some of the most horrific and disturbing legends, some like Madame LaLaurie (who was a real character) which was dramatized  in the movie Coven with Kathy Bates
The interview was conducted in 1980 (when I was young) in her Victorian house near 18th and Castro in San Francisco.  Ground zero for those who were being labeled as outsiders and carriers of a plague. I found her courageous...and someone to whom laughing or smiling was as natural as breathing.

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Chapters

• 0:49 Where I got idea for Interview With A Vampire
• 1:54 The opening sequence where vampire and interviewer meet
• 3:12 The agony of feeding off humanity but never becoming human and being seen as a monster
• 3:39 The sequel Vampire Lestat people we love die in our arms
• 4:32 Charmed by Vampires is part of the rapture. What some students said they'd do if they met Lestat.
• 7:40 What happened when dying child claudia was made a vampire
• 8:51 Why do we see so many children in horror movies (Exorcist Omen etc)
• 9:23 I grew up reading horrible ghost stories about Louisiana.
• 14:35 Creating Vampire Lestat